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T: 24 Favourite Dances for the Year 1784
Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
B: Thomas Straight "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1784", London 1784
F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-straights1784
N: As of August 2014, only the last 4 pages of this collection were available at www.vwml.org.
N: This booklet uses the following icons in the dance descriptions (rotated 1/4 turn to be typable):
N:   .|.  First  time first  strain.
N:   :|.  Second time first  strain.
N:   .|:  First  time second strain.
N:   :|:  Second time second strain.
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%%center 24 Favourite DANCES for the Year 1784
%%center With proper Directions to each Dance,
%%center as they are perform'd at Court, Bath,
%%center and all publick Assemblies
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%%center London Printed for T.Straight No.138 St Martins Lane near
%%center Charing Cross.
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%% Transcription notes:
%% The tunes are numbered (below the clef and time signature); their number (01-24)
%% is used in the file name to preserve the publication order.
%% Some abbreviations use small superscript letters with a dot underneath.
%% The dots are ignored for will-known abbreviations, and the letters typed as-is.
%% For unusual abbreviations, the dots may be transcribed.
%% Some abbreviations end with ":", which is usually transcribed.
%% Original staff breaks are ignored; the ABC is formatted to have 2 or 4 bars per line,
%% which are joined into staffs to look good at a small scale.
%% Dances are transcribed with the original line breaks, which isn't significant.
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%%text In August 2014, pages 1-8 of this collection were missing, so only 9-12 are transcribed here.